Senior Product Manager - Private Rented Sector Database

Job summary

The Private Rented Sector team in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is recruiting a Senior Product Manager to lead the delivery of the Private Rented Sector Database, a key measure introduced through the Renter's Rights Act. This set of reforms is crucial to improving the private rented sector, as the lowest quality, least secure and least affordable of all tenures.

The database aims to drive housing standards in the sector by supporting landlords to understand their legal duties, providing essential information to local councils for enforcement purposes, and helping tenants make informed choices about which properties they let.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead product teams to design, build and deliver digital products and features that form the Private Rented Sector Database. This includes services to register landlords and letting agents, for tenants to view information about landlords, for local authorities to access the database, and administration interfaces. You will be working closely with policy, operations and other digital services to set the direction by balancing the objectives of Government and legislation with the needs of millions of landlords and tenants, thousands of letting agents, and hundreds of local authorities, among other user groups. The service will launch later this year, so you need to be confident delivery at pace. The role reports to the Service Owner.

Job description

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll:

• Lead product teams to design, build and deliver digital products and features that form the Private Rented Sector database
• Shape and align to the product strategy and vision, balancing the objectives of Government with the needs of users – landlords, tenants, local authorities, and others
• Prioritise the roadmap to enable the successful delivery of a minimum viable product and subsequently prioritise product development, iteration and improvement; you’ll be working on a product that moves from private beta into public beta
• Work with other product managers to plan work across multiple delivery streams
• Seek opportunities for reuse and solve the whole problem in the private rented sector space
• Understand and influence an array of stakeholders with different needs and wants to shape the service and control communications

Person specification

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll have:

• Experience of prioritising product features to ensure we are building the right things at the right time (the roadmap) to enable successful delivery; as part of this you’ll be comfortable having challenging conversations where trade-offs are needed and how to use data to drive decision making
• Product managed services from private betas, into public betas, and the associated skills and knowledge needed of leading a live service with a large user base
• Proven experience of bringing together a range of stakeholders to shape product development, the strategy and vision, including how we can solve a whole problem and opportunities for re-use
• Used user-centred design to build great services in accordance with the GDS Service Standard and Service Manual
• Fostered a positive team culture and motivated a multi-disciplinary team to deliver to ambitious timelines

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,167, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £16,271 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.At MHCLG we offer many benefits that range from tailored career pathways and flexible working to MyLifestyle Childcare Voucher and Cycle to Work Schemes. For more information, please click here.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Application and Selection

The application process will be split into 2 stages, testing the following Success Profiles:

Experience , Technical

Please ensure your CV does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Note: We do not consider direct CV applications. All applications must be submitted via the provided application link.

Important: Your CV and Cover Letter must be merged into a single document before uploading.

Stage 1: Sift (CV & Cover Letter)

Experience: Your CV and covering letter should explain why you are interested in the role (25%) and how your experience meets the essential criteria (75%).

We will be assessing you against Technical success profiles of: Product Leadership, Product Management, Stakeholder Relationships, and Strategic Ownership.

Stage 2: Interview

• Experience: Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description.
• Technical: Technical questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description.

Candidates will be asked to prepare a presentation, further details will be provided on invitation to interview.

Sift and Interview Dates

Sifting is envisaged to take place the week commencing 2nd February 2026.

Interviews are envisaged to take place the week commencing 16th February 2026 and are currently being held remotely via videocall. This could be subject to change.

How We Recruit

Find out everything you need to know before applying here..

• Applying
• Sifting
• Interview
• Interview Results & Feedback
• Reserve List
• Near Miss
• Civil Service Grades
• We are a DCS, RIS & GPTWV employer
• Reasonable Adjustments

How to Apply

What you need to know before applying.

• Security Clearance Requirements
• Civil Service Nationality Requirements
• Right to Work
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civil Service Code and Recruitment Principles
• CV Declaration
• Sponsorships
• Salary and Grade
• Existing Civil Servants
• Conflict of Interest
• Location and Flexible Working
• Fixed Term Contracts
• Internal Fraud Database - Internal Fraud Register
• Appeals and Complaints
• Conflict of Interest

Security Clearance Requirements

National Office: + CTC

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Digital Data Jobs
• Email : Digitaldatajobs@communities.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Digitaldatajobs@communities.gov.uk